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...Ivan. Poland was among the first nations to accept the Marshall Plan "in principle" last June, and the Communists, like other Poles, were disappointed when the Kremlin told them to reverse themselves and decline the invitation to the Paris conference. Ships flying the flags of 14 nations were in Gdynia the day I landed. But even Poland's ports are not entirely her own. The former German Swinemunde, now Swinoujscie, has thousands of Red fleet sailors. One of the few Polish sailors I saw there said sourly: "This is a Soviet base." Swinoujscie's ice-cream shop...
...Westerdam (150) and Noordam (150); Swedish America Line's Gripsholm (1,400) and Drottningholm (700); Italy's Saturnia (1,500); Norwegian America Line's Stavangerfjord (750); Spanish Line's Magallanes (500) and Marques de Camillas (500); French Line's Wisconsin (65) and Oregon (60); Gdynia American Line's Batory...
...drowning hundreds hiding out. Ten days after the Nazi capital's surrender, bodies were still rotting in the streets. The northern pockets which had been holding out behind Russian lines were quickly swabbed out. On the Courland peninsula in Latvia some 190,000 Germans were taken. Around Danzig, Gdynia...
Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevsky cleaned up the largest of the East Prussian pockets and drove with four armies on Königsberg. Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky took Danzig, first city to fall to the Germans on the first day of World War II. Other Russian troops stormed into Gdynia and found 9,000 dispirited Germans lined up on the docks, waiting to be evacuated on ships that never came...
...east Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky split land communications between Danzig and Gdynia and was closing a double set of prongs on the two cities. Farther east Marshal Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky, 47-year-old Cossack, took Braunsberg, one-time stronghold of the Teutonic Knights...